ALDS Game 3: Indians 4, Red Sox 3

An emotional David Ortiz saluted the fans after Monday?s loss. It was Ortiz?s last major-league game.

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As a season ends, so does the Big Papi era

Monday?s clinching loss in the ALDS was about more than playoff elimination. It also marked the end of the line for David Ortiz.

David Ortiz ended his great career on the Red Sox bench, alongside manager John Farrell (right).

DAN SHAUGHNESSY

This was a bad ending for a good team

The Sox? ignominious sweep no doubt will crank up the ?Fire Farrell? bandwagon.

NICK CAFARDO | ON BASEBALL

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/10/11/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/davis_cb19_spts.jpg No dramatic finish for David Ortiz

We all hoped Big Papi would do something big to lead the Red Sox to a memorable comeback and vault them deep into the postseason.

CHRISTOPHER L. GASPER

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2013/10/17/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/gasper_20131017.jpg Front-running Red Sox offense couldn?t catch up

The worst fears about the this team were confirmed in three games where they fell behind and could never get up.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/10/11/BostonGlobe.com/ReceivedContent/Images/ortizsalute.jpg Watch: David Ortiz bids farewell to Fenway fans

After letting the Indians celebrate their ALDS victory, Ortiz returned to the field to tip his cap.

A Cambridge nonprofit?s growing ties with Pine Street Inn

Food For Free grows vegetables at a Lincoln farm specifically for the homeless shelter.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/10/11/BostonGlobe.com/Foreign/Images/200_hart_holmstrom.jpg Harvard and MIT economists, friends and collaborators, share Nobel

Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström, who work at rival schools on opposite ends of Cambridge, will split the $924,000 prize.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/10/10/BostonGlobe.com/ReceivedContent/Images/Boghosian_springsteen5_LIFE.jpg The Boss takes over Harvard Square

Just 1,000 Bruce Springsteen fans scored tickets to the exclusive event.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/10/10/BostonGlobe.com/Lifestyle/Images/tom%20and%20giselle.jpg Tom Brady wasn?t a fan of those nude sunbathing photos

Brady called the photos that caught him laying on a chair in Italy ?a little invasive.?

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/10/10/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/161010_TOPSFIELD_FOOD_002.jpg If you fry it, they will come (to the Topsfield Fair)

The gluttonous, calorie-laden spirit of the midway appealed to families and others from far and wide.

After Paul Ryan?s disavowal, few still on Trump train

Donald Trump campaigned Monday in Ambridge, Pa., near Pittsburgh, a day after the second presidential debate.

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The House speaker?s move could open the door to other top Republicans to back away from supporting Trump.

Kevin Cullen

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/10/11/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/cullen-11605.jpg They just don?t get it

The erosion of the middle class is the background music to the most dispiriting presidential campaign in history.

Before securing the endorsement of US Senator Elizabeth Warren, Hillary Clinton?s campaign feared Warren would endorse primary rival Bernie Sanders, according to leaked e-mails released on Monday.

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Leaked e-mails claim Clinton was worried about Warren

Hillary Clinton?s team also expressed concern that the Mass. senator would endorse Bernie Sanders.

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/10/07/BostonGlobe.com/ReceivedContent/Images/trump2.jpg Will Billy Bush ever return to the ?Today? show?

The NBC personality is under fire, and now suspended, for his role in the infamous Trump tape.

BEN VOLIN | ON FOOTBALL

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/10/10/BostonGlobe.com/Sports/Images/2016-10-09T175041Z_2026187843_NOCID_RTRMADP_3_NFL-NEW-ENGLAND-PATRIOTS-AT-CLEVELAND-BROWNS.jpg Threat of run opened up Patriots? passing attack vs. Browns

A couple of Tom Brady?s biggest throws Sunday were disguised as runs, and the Browns paid dearly.

The wreckage from the crash displayed its severity.

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In small Vermont town, deaths of 5 teens are a devastating blow

In Moretown, nearly everyone seemed to have known the students killed in a wrong-way driver crash Saturday on I-89.

Mayor Walsh and others rallied in support of the Community Preservation Act for Boston on Thursday.

Support builds for tax hike in Boston to boost housing

Fifteen years after a similar measure failed resoundingly, thanks to the mayor?s skepticism, city leaders now are getting behind it.

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For non-profits, the end of the year is when the real work begins

A charitable giving expert shares how non-profits can reach their year-end goals as the holiday season approaches.

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Globe investigations

The desperate and the dead

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2016/08/29/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/spotlight9090-11856.jpg The broken covenant

Behind the fragmented state of mental health care lies a political system failure that spans decades ? and continues.

The story behind 'Spotlight'

//c.o0bg.com/rf/image_90x90/Boston/2011-2020/2015/11/18/BostonGlobe.com/Metro/Images/spotlight-9497.jpg Boston Globe coverage and the movie ?Spotlight?

?Spotlight? is based on the stories and the reporters behind the investigation of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church.

The Big Picture

Trees sway from heavy rain and wind from Hurricane Matthew in front of Exploration Tower early Friday, Oct. 7, 2016 in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Matthew weakened slightly to a Category 3 storm with maximum sustained winds near 120 mph, but the U.S. National Hurricane Center says it's expected to remain a powerful hurricane as it moves closer to the coast. (Craig Rubadoux/Florida Today via AP)

Craig Rubadoux/Florida Today via AP

Hurricane Matthew

The most powerful Atlantic storm in nearly a decade left a path of destruction over the Caribbean and the US.